CHAPTER I The Republic
10. Provisions to secure protection of law
(6) No person shall be tried for a criminal offence if he or she shows that he or she has been pardoned for that offence .
CHAPTER IV The Executive
PART III Executive Functions (ss 47-56)
53. Prerogative of Mercy
The President may-
(a) grant to any person convicted of any offence a pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions;
1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:
(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute;